Crime & Safety
Man Fatally Shot In Lone Mountain Neighborhood Break-In
San Francisco resident Lev Tikhomirov, 50, was taken into custody in connection with the shooting.
SAN FRANCISCO — A 42-year-old man died in a shooting at a home in San Francisco's Lone Mountain neighborhood early Wednesday morning, according to police.
Officers responding shortly after 4:30 a.m. to a report of a break-in at a home in the 100 block of Willard North, located just west of the University of San Francisco campus, arrived to find the victim suffering from a gunshot wound, police said Thursday.
He was pronounced dead at the scene and his name was not immediately available from the city's Medical Examiner's Office.
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Investigators identified Lev Tikhomirov, a 50-year-old San Francisco resident, as the suspected shooter and took him into custody. He was booked into jail on suspicion of homicide and being a felon in possession of a firearm, police said.
No other details about the case were released. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the SFPD tip line at (415) 575-4444 or to send a tip by text message to TIP411 with "SFPD" at the start of the message.
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